The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-06-07
The Handwriting ON the Wall.

EDITOR GAZETTE-You have from time to
time fully detailed the follies and iniquities
of the powers that be, and, with others, have
wondered why an outraged community does
not meet together and protest against the
shameless course of misgovernment which
has been inflicted upon it. But the public is
tired of meetings, as we'll as of protests in
the press and elsewhere, which only seem to
provoke more high-handed course of mis-
rule, accompanied by threats and acts on the
part of the Executive which clearly indicate
that they propose 20 back their wroug-doing
by forcible means, and to coerce those of the
people whom they cannot cajole with gin or
gingerbread into submission to it.
1t has now for long time been the only
consoling reflection left for thoughtful citi-
zens that it is impossible this state of affairs
can last forever. and it has been concluded
that the best course under the circumstances
was to give our rulers rope enough and they
would hang themselves. The progress of
events seems to have justified this policy by
the rapidity with which folly has succeeded
folly, from sacred pigs to a ship of war
manned by drunkards, criminals and cavalry
officers, and by the way in which iniquity
has succeeded iniquity, from undertaking
to the opium swindle.
The latter, so fully exposed in your last
ssue, completes the evidence which has grad
ually .unfolded itself before the public that
the opium bill, conceived in iniquity and evil
IDENTIFY intended as a fraud by the very terms
of it, passed by corrupt majority of the two
Houses in legislature assembled, approved by
the King and countersigned by one of his
ministers, has been used by the present Exec
utive as a means for robbing a certain Dor
ton of the community, who were prepared to
be the accomplices of the Government in an
organized plotfo raising money by debauch-
ing the rest of their countrymen but who
their hearts that any professional band of
plunderers could be so hopelessly stupid as
not to know and to remember that to insure
success IN their calling certain amount of
honor IS necessary, even among thieves.
The lnordinate capacity of some members of
our precious Executive Government, who, not
content with fair division of the spoil, must
deliberately rob some of their would-be &C
completes of every dollar they could raise,
with sundry roast pigs thrown in, has caused
the whole plot to be "giVen away" Every
single head of the Government in each de-
partment has become an accomplice in this
now fully exposed swindle either before or
after the fact for they hold on to their offices
without making the slightest attempt to pun
lsh their colleagues or their employees who
participated IN, or connived at, the robbery
directly or indirectly by the receipt of brides
or of portion of the spoils.
In fine, it stands out as clear as MONDAY
that the Constitution of the Kingdom, the
Legislature and the Executive, and therefore
the rights and liberties of the people, are in
the hands of band of brigands but if ever
gang OF narauders succeeded in hanging
themselves with the slack of the rope which
has been given them, our rulers seem to be
Oh the verge of that position to day, for they
have carefully adjusted the moose around
their own necks and now stand together on
one platform, with black caps over their
faces, oily waiting for some one to draw the
bolt and-as the newspapers say in reporting
such affairs-launch the unhappy culprits
into eternity. A LONG SUFFERER.
HONOLULU June 6, 1887